Whole Foods Market

I went in to buy oysters today, and the gentleman behind the seafood counter made my day! He was not only knowledgable of the product, but made friendly conversation the entire time we were there. He happily shucked all 20 of our oysters and balanced the other customers at the same time, as he was working by himself. I didn’t catch his name, but saw a nametag that said «EK.» I believe this man truly is the heart of your store!

I’ll give Whole Foods a solid 3 stars. I could maybe push that to 4 stars. Since Lucky’s came to town… I don’t have many reasons to go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s.
The reasons I go to Whole Foods?
1: Cucumbers — I’m not sure why, but they always taste better from Whole Foods.
2: Strawberries — Not that they don’t taste great from other places, but the freshness through the winter shines when they come from Whole Foods.
3: Kiwis — Same reasoning as the strawberries.
4: Cheese — While Kroger has stepped it up at some of their locations, there is still a larger selection at Whole Foods.
5: Brazi Bites (Brazilian Cheese Bites) — If you haven’t heard of them, then you will! Whole Foods is currently the only store carrying them in our area (that I can find).
Other things to note:
– Helpful staff.
– It’s usually busy, but they have things spaced out enough to where it’s not an issue.
– Pricier than other stores so don’t buy your entire grocery list there.
– I usually find something unique in the bakery section.
– It’s by the mall so during the holidays it can be extra crowded.
– If playing with toys before you grocery shop is your thing… you’re in luck! Toys R Us is next door.

When you come from Northern Montana with the culture of rock and cuisine that consists of grease, protein and starch walking into a Whole Foods can boarder on a holy experience. So take this review with a lump of salt.
This Whole Foods is similar to most others in layout and offerings. All the standard items are covered. But when the farms in the surrounding areas harvest their crops some of it makes its way right to this store. Greens that pop with color and texture. Reds that just yearn to be placed in a sandwich or pasta sauce. Green beans that will clean the kitchen before jumping into the pot.
The meat and fish selection is top notch. Brining in items from all around the country and beyond. Remember one of the national UPS shipping hubs is right up the road. Overnight freight delivery is really just 6 or so hours from key locations on the globe.
Friendly staff are always working on something but whenever I engage them I have there full attention.
Prices are what you would expect at a WholeFoods. Plan on paying not on saving. But the quality is well worth it. That other duffel I haul around with me goes back with cheeses and dried goods from the bulk section. Yes yes I really want all this cheese and 20+ pounds of cranberries. Here is my ID for the CC. Sheeesh. See you next year.

I like this particular Whole Foods. In the heart of St. Matthews it’s convenient to everything. Their food is actually well cooked and didn’t need extra salt or amino. The variety of salad is epic!
Note: their cookies and beautiful tins make for a cute hostess gift!

I just finished watching South Park. And now I cannot wait to go to this place! The entire episode was about the town getting itself ready for a critic to analyze the town and see if they were worthy of having a Whole Foods built there at the end of the episode they got it!

I stopped in here because the Whole Foods back home has a pretty solid beer selection and I wanted to check out what they had to offer in Louisville. While it is not as large as some (I can see why due to size), they did have a nice selection to choose from. I also came here wanting to get dinner but left with nothing as I got there too late and the hot bar looked like it got baked on the sun. I decided to go back the next day to grab a few bottles of water and tea and noticed they had a breakfast bar. BINGO! I was there in time as everything looked nice and fresh. Although a tad over priced for what I got it was a tasty way to get the day started. I would suggest having a place to put your trays when you are done… mine almost went in the trash. Although this is by far the smallest and perhaps oldest Whole Foods I have been in, they seem to have the service down as to expect from Whole Foods.

Whole Foods uses prison labor harvest cheese, paying prisoners $ 1.50 per hour.
Whole Foods has been systematically overcharging customers for over a decade.
Whole Foods CEO doesn’t believe humans cause climate change.
Whole Foods prevents their employees from unionizing.
I’m someone who use to shop at #WholeFoods, now I’m boycotting them.

I really like Whole Foods Market. I love going in to browse, pick up special items, have lunch or dinner from the hot bar and salad bar, and pick up special deserts or alcohol. You’ll notice I used the word «special» twice above. That’s because getting to go and actually shop at Whole Foods Market is special. It’s like a treat. I would love to shop there all the time, but it’s just too expensive to use as my go-​to grocery. I also mentioned getting lunch or dinner here. That is something I love to do, but it’s expensive as well. It’s $ 8.99/pound, which doesn’t seem that steep until you take your plate of salad up to the cashier to pay and it’s somehow $ 13.00, so for two people, by the time you get a ridiculously priced drink, you’re spending $ 30.00 to eat lunch in a grocery store. But, I will say, the food is absolutely delicious. And it’s good quality, so we treat ourselves to meals here from time to time.
I also love to go to Friday Night Flights on Friday evenings from 5:30 — 7:30. For only $ 5.00 you get 5 beer samples and food pairings, and you can go over to the wine shop after for a couple of wine tastings, and they usually have a snack on hand as well. This event is my favorite thing that Whole Foods does, because it’s cheap and you get to try lots of new items. Often times they’ll have samples out around the store as well, so you can try those, and they’ll have specials on certain items so you may end up leaving with something good for an actually reasonable price.
I definitely recommend Whole Foods Market, just be mindful of the expense.

Simply said, I come here to browse, not to buy. Maybe I can get something if its on sale, but otherwise, its a good place to get ideas. The hot bar and salad bar are always well done. The baked goods and cookie assortment are also well done. I came here to pick up gluten free baked goods for a co-​worker and found a selection of cookies, cheesecake, and cupcakes in the bakery section.
Best of all, I could use Apple Pay!

Another visit, More than a year has passed, worse than before. Forget how dirty the store is, the front door looks like a preschool cafeteria door. Fingerprints? Enough to fill the NSA’s database. Half a step in and the filthy, dirty carpet is bunched up against the door. Trip hazard for all those that come and go. Enter this chain store that is headquartered elsewhere, and it is painfully clear that there is a management group at HQ that doesn’t visit, on site managers that don’t inspect the inside /​outside regularly and employees that do less than required.
Dirtiest store I’ve been to in the whole foods system.

I really want to give Whole Foods a higher rating than 3*, but I just can’t do it in good conscience.
Whole Foods is a really cool place and a really cool idea. Very fresh and organic foods for people that are seeking these things out. Whole Foods gives you this option. I would recommend Whole Foods to people that have certain allergies, like Gluten or Citric Acid. It’s probably going to be the best place to shop for people like that.
I really enjoy the atmosphere and the «vibe» in Whole Foods. I often will go and just look around, making mental notes of what I can do in the future.
Unfortunately, for myself and for people like me, Whole Foods just isn’t a practical place to shop on a regular basis. It is insanely expensive for a grocery store. And I lived in London. We had Marks & Spencer and Waitrose. Whole Foods is on another level of expensive, I think. It is actually quite discouraging.
One really neat thing about Whole Foods that I often do is Friday Night Flights. Every Friday, from 530pm to 730pm, you can go and pay $ 5. This allows you to visit 5 different stations. Each station has an item of food, and a selected sample of beer to compliment said food item. The food items are a salad, soup, side, entrée, and dessert. As well as this, you can taste two wine samples in the wine shop. All for $ 5. It can’t be beaten.
Except…
The food is usually more miss than hit. They hippy it up a bit too much. «Here. Try this raw cabbage salad, mixed with chunky tomatoes and dragon fruit, complimented with oregano, coriander, sea salt that was harvested from Challenger’s Deep, and drizzled with the urine of a baby whale shark. All organic, of course.»
«Thanks.»
It’s fun for $ 5. But the amount of pretentiousness that looms around each station is pretty thick. So take a friend or two.

Fresh produce and many great employees… I like coming for lunch. I recommend trying some kombucha tea drinks.

I only come here a few times a year. Normally when we grill out.
I love their meat department. Great steaks and awesome lamb.
The place is spacey and easy to locate and navigate around.
A little pricey but the food is better than that of a Kroger or Wal-​Mart.

You know all about the grocery store, so be sure you don’t overlook the wine shop!
I popped in here recently on a small errand. See, I had collected quite a few wine corks and wanted to recycle them instead of tossing them into a landfill. Whole Foods came up as one of the first results for places that recycle them. I poured the corks into a bag, jumped into my car, and hit the road.
Once I was there, it was easy to find the cardboard console to pour them into (pictured). I got rid of my old corks and was feeling pretty good about myself for making a good environmental choice.
Of course, one can always feel better about oneself, right? That’s why Bacchus invented wine :-)
The inside of this wine shop reminds me of a library, with wooden built-​in shelves of delicious wine and rolling ladders to help reach those bottles on the top racks. Little tags make suggestions for pairings, even with the most unconventional foods (eg: Spiach, Brie). And, with this being Kentucky, there is quite the Bourbon selection.
And if you need to feel even BETTER about your choice for the Whole Foods wine shop, they have a number of wines that are nice to your pocketbook, too. The opening price point wine, «Three Wishes» comes in at just under $ 3, at $ 2.99 for a bottle of Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, or Merlot. Just above that was a variety of $ 3.99 «Don Simon» wines. Taste test pending on these, watch for the update!
Update (1÷23÷2015): I’ve now tried some of the cheap wines and wanted to weigh in on them!
Keep in mind that I’m no sommelier, and mainly I just want a wine that I can drink and enjoy, either with an appetizer or as an accompaniment to a meal.
«Three Wishes» — not too shabby. I tried the Chardonnay (not usually my favorite type of white, but it was the only one available in 3 wishes) and the Cabernet Sauvignon. Both were quite palatable for a $ 2.99 wine, and I actually found that I liked the Cab Sauv quite a bit. I would definitely buy the Cab Sauv again, but skip on the Chardonnay, mainly because I don’t like Chardonnay in general.
«Don Simon» – (accent mark is on the second syllable of Simon, so it’s pronounced Don «See-​MOAN», and not Don «SIGH-​man» as the person in the wine shop pronounced it). I tried the Tempranillo and the Chardonnay. I personally found the Chardonnay to be too weak and watered-​down for my liking. It was also sweeter than what I’m used to in a Chardonnay, although not as syrupy sweet as a Riesling. The Tempranillo was quite good, though! I liked it as a solid choice for a tasty Spanish red.
All in all, this place is definitely a good spot to go to for affordable and potable wine. Cheers!

Whole Foods Market’s are dear to my heart… I only wish they were ‘near’. Louisville has been graced with one location, a second — downtown if possible, would be a blessing. I suppose I was spoiled in Palo Alto, CA. I do miss the 2 block stroll my husband and I used to make each evening from the gym to Whole Foods and back home again. But — alas — this location off Shelbyville Rd. does hit the spot! Since I no longer live a football field away, a trip to WF and their Wine Shop is a real treat.
I appreciate their diverse offerings and sometimes find their prices to be better than Kroger/​chain grocers. I meander the aisles, chat with the employees and always find the other shoppers pleasant as well. The butchers are always very polite and honest with their opinions on the various cuts.

I’ve been to probably 100 Whole Foods around the country and this one for me is the worst (after Indianapolis) in the country. Their prices are more inflated than the average Whole Foods. The same brand of coconut water is $.90 more per can here than at other Whole Foods.
The hot bar has had the same items for years and it’s all heavy bready types of foods and barely any vegetables. The salad bar is always messy and has a terrible selection.
On top of it they have a very slim selection compared to other Whole Foods. If you are driving through Louisville, don’t even waste your time here and go to Nashville or Cincinnati. (avoid Indianapolis though) or go to Trader Joes.
I find more organic and better products at Meijer than I do at this store.
UPDATE: After my frustration of going to this store while in Louisville, I just found «The Fresh Market» which is at 10 480 Shelbyville Road. While it isn’t a natural foods store (bur really either is Whole Foods), they have lots of organic produce and much better prices. They didn’t have everything I look for at most Whole Foods (but either does the Louisville Whole Foods) but they actually had a lot more for my tastes.

In general I really like perusing Whole Foods although I don’t grocery shop there regularly. I think they are a little overpriced but their already prepared foods are amazing. I went this last Friday for Friday Night Flights and had a blast! If you are ever looking for a new way to «sample» go to Whole Foods at 6 p.m. on Friday nights. You pay $ 5 at the last register closest to the wine door and you can walk around and sample 5 stations of food and beer along with a wine flight at the end. Just don’t fogey to keep your program so they can mark off the stations you have been too!

I went in reluctantly last week and see that I really haven’t been missing much. My coworkers got a few things from the salad bar and had lunches over $ 15. I don’t care how organic and clean the store is, that’s cray. Luckily, I found a chicken quesadilla in the fridge section for $ 3.99 and it was okay. I miss Wild Oats.

Fridays they do a deal for five dollars where you get to try a few beers and have a few samples of foods. Definitely a good deal and also fun!
It’s a Whole Foods, if you have been to one before you know what you are going to get.
For the most part I stick to the hot soups, hot food bar, and salad bar. The beer cheese soup is by far the best but it isn’t out all that often. They also do BOGO pizzas on Tuesdays and I think if you call ahead a day or two you can get some premade how you like. I haven’t tried this in several months so YMMV.
The parking lot is full of Prius owners who don’t know how to drive so you better be careful!

I just found the best seafood market in Louisville! They get fresh items 6 days a week!
I don’t shop at Whole Foods very often. When I do, I usually go directly to the hot/​cold food bar while skipping the pricey produce section. I’m glad a sale sign on the entrance directed me to the seafood market: today’s special is $ 7.99/lb for 16 – 20 count shrimp! That is like half off! So of course I had to go and get me a couple of pounds of the jumbo crustaceans. And what I saw behind the counter is the best selection of seafood I have found in Louisville so far. Besides the usual salmon, tuna, scallops and mussels, they also have whole red fish, blue fish and other stuff even I don’t recognize. In fact, the salmon fillets were so fresh, I bought a chunk to take home for sashimi. A little bit of wasabi paste and soy sauce later, I was devouring a small bowl of sashimi for only $ 6!
Oh, and the hot/​cold bar! While it can seem pricey for a family meal. But you can get a plate of various items for about $ 8/​lb. My plates usually end up being $ 7 – 8. Today, I got Greens Smothered Ham hocks; Mac n Cheese; Smothered pork chunk; and Peas and Pancetta. They were all so tasty!
Lastly, I must highlight the soup bar. I am a dedicated soup snob. I try soups wherever I go but I am not usually impressed. Whole Foods has at least 6 – 8 soups out at any given time. And I was tempted to get a small ladle of all of them. I finally settled on a cup of their seafood gumbo. I have never seen a seafood gumbo so chock full of seafood! It was so thick my spoon could rest on top of it. It puts all of the other seafood gumbos to shame. The ones I passed up today: NE Clam Chowder, Manhattan Clam Chowder, Mushroom and Barley, Chorizo, Boston Bean… etc…etc, I can’t name any more. If you like soups, you must try the soup bar!!!